Aggregate information involves information about groups of consumers that can no longer be linked back to any individual's personal information. Deidentified information involves individual records that can no longer be associated or relinked with any particular individual.

What counts as de-identified data?

In education, de-identified data generally refers to data from which all personally identifiable information has been removed—i.e., data about individual students, teachers, or administrators that has been rendered anonymous by stripping out any information that would allow people to determine an individual's identity.

What is de-identified aggregate statistics?

De-identification is a process that removes personal details from a data set. This approach aims to protect privacy while still providing comprehensive data for analytics. Some of the data is better at identifying individuals than others. ... With de-identification, we remove those unique identifiers from the raw data.